 Linda here from ITTT. Friday again which means live ITTT live. Hi, good to see you again. Thanks for joining. My name is Linda and today we're going to talk about 10 free tools for online English teachers even though some of these tools will also be suitable for in-class teachers so if you teach an actual classroom you can also take advantage of these free tools. There are some so there will be something for everybody whether you're teaching online whether you're teaching in a classroom or whether you're not teaching at all yet and you just want to get some ideas and inspiration for your future classes. So everything that's everything we're going to talk about today. As always there's also a Q&A section so you can ask me your questions about ITTT, about TEFL, about TSOL, about teaching abroad whatever it is and yeah don't forget to like and subscribe you're already here and we actually go live every week. 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timing Daniel you haven't missed anything yet great awesome okay let me check this out oh yeah did I mention this already don't forget to like and subscribe I have mentioned that just want to mention it again if you haven't yet you know just like and subscribe we always appreciate that and then we are talking about 10 free tools for online English teachers today and like I said these tools you can also use if you are an in-class teacher most of them some you don't need when you're an in-class teacher obviously but some of them will be very useful also for in the classroom so there'll be some tools for um creating teaching materials there'll be some tools for using in your online classroom or as your online classroom for visual aids there'll be some tools for what else for engaging with other teachers um there'll be some tools for managing your different online students for helping them sign up for your classes um so there'll be a lot of those uh everything you need when you want to teach English online and like I said some of these you can also use and they will be very helpful for people who are teaching in the classroom so yeah that's it let me turn this off and then I just want to mention again our 30% off if you just joined and you haven't heard that um so we are giving away 30% off discounts off of any TEFL or TESOL course from ITTT um so you can scan this QR code or you can check the comment section there is a link that looks like this it ends in Facebook live minus Linda this one will also get you 30% off if you can't scan the QR code throughout the live session you can find the QR code in the upper right hand corner um smaller so you can scan it whenever you are ready or um just copy and paste the link you can also obviously wait you don't have to do this right away this doesn't expire so you can take your time browse the website make sure you choose the right course and then sign up all right I think that's about it so we are ready to jump in now are you guys ready are you guys ready I am ready oh oh let me take one sip of my coffee and then then I'm ready or maybe two I want to all right good Friday morning I'm excited but I do need my coffee to do this to get this done oh my gosh all right Claudia said yes indeed awesome great all right uh yeah let's talk about it so 10 free tools for online English teachers like I said also useful for in-class teachers so let's jump in and the first one probably um oh this is part of my intro excuse me I wanted to share this with you too and I shared this last time with you guys as well because we also talked about online teaching but I know every time we get some new people watching so I want to share this with you guys again this is a list of 20 non-Chinese non-Chinese online teaching companies or the best online teaching companies to work for at the moment non-Chinese because last year China actually introduced or the Chinese government actually introduced this ban on online teaching and many people basically if you're outside of China it's very difficult now to teach for these online teaching companies based in China so there's a there's some risk involved and they haven't quite figured it out yet so that's why this is an alternative for people who have lost their jobs on these Chinese sites um these are all non-Chinese so they are safe basically um they won't just suddenly uh you know stop overnight because of these restrictions they are not affected by these restrictions so I'm going to share that with you guys I know that I have shared it in the past some some of you already have this um but it is a google sheet that you can just uh so click on this if you want it uh this one and then you go over to um file make a copy and then you can make your own copy of this and you'll see all the information about all of these 20 sites on there their hourly rates their requirements whether or not you need a degree whether or not you need to be a native English speaker or they also hire non-native speakers all of the most important information you will see on this sheet and in the very the last column on the right there will be um the apply link so this is the one you click if you want to apply for this teaching platform that's basically how it works so you can check that one out I know that many of you have already checked it out so um yeah just I just wanted to put this out there again I see a lot of new faces today here so um yeah if you're interested in teaching English online and you don't have this sheet yet just grab it and again you would click on file make a copy and then you have it saved for you on your computer okay and also on the topic of teaching online this is what I talked about last week so how to stand out on English teacher marketplace platforms if you haven't seen that yet and you're interested in teaching English online I highly recommend recommend you check it out uh let me grab the link to that as well in case you missed it it's always also in our playlist so we have a playlist of live sessions on youtube and also on facebook it'll always stay there you can always watch the replays and these go back now almost two years two years worth of live sessions you can check out this link I just posted it the youtube link to this video from last week also again very useful for people who want to start teaching English online good okay this is part of my intro now like Daniel said ready to get techy okay now we're ready to get techy we're ready to get into it again there will be Q&A at the end if you have any questions about what I talked about today anything else not related to any of these tools today about ITTT in general about Tefal TESOL whatever you can do so at the end and as always I know many of you are already teaching English online or you have experience feel free to share maybe there's some that you have used already some of these tools and you can share your experience or maybe you can share some alternatives that you have used and you like let me know I'm always here to learn something new as well so yeah without further ado let's get techy like Daniel said let's get techy great all right number one okay now some of you people might be like oh my god zoom you're putting that on the list um yes I am I am I know I know it's kind of a no brainer kind of a no brainer for sure zoom but zoom I mean actually I haven't gotten really into zoom in a couple months like a couple months ago that's when I really started using it before that I used sky bulb ways so this is actually my question for you guys what if you have taught English online or for any kind of other online like meetings or whatever which one do you use what do you use do you zoom who's using zoom or something else let me know in the comments if you use zoom you just put zoom in the comments and if you use something else put something else in there but the name skype or I believe there's google google hangouts I think last time Juliana also mentioned something with microsoft microsoft meets for something um so yeah let's see who is using zoom if zoom is really taking over or if somebody's using something different let me know in the comments so yes zoom if you don't know uh is for video conferencing and actually since countries around the world went into lockdown during COVID zoom's daily usage has gone up at least 300 percent so really zoom has been taken over and there are a couple of really good reasons for it and a lot of people say like skype because skype used to be the number one video conferencing tool um so a lot of people were really shocked that skype kind of missed the mark here um they had a huge opportunity during COVID but they kind of blew it kind of didn't work out and zoom just really took over so yes claudia also using zoom here we have mrs nevin nevin I hope I'm saying that correctly nevin also zoom I also use zoom um so I use zoom and skype on the teaching platform where I teach students they can actually choose which one they want to use with me so they can book a skype lesson or they can book a zoom lessons up to them I offer both and um I do prefer zoom so zoom has a lot of great options and my favorite features are you can enable or disable recording which is really great you can use this for your own like teacher development you can rewatch and then kind of analyze what you could have done better or also you can use this for reference um you know if you teach somebody and then maybe later they're like oh this is the first time you taught me that or why you never taught me that before or there's some kind of issue you can kind of refer back to your recording and show them all on this day at that time I showed you that or I talked we talked about that kind of a security issue maybe you can fall back onto that also obviously loving the mute and unmute feature you can mute your students if you teach a lot of students especially young learners you know very useful you can your room hauling which is also really great you can do polls with your students waiting rooms are also really really great I always recommend using waiting rooms because you as the host as the teacher you can then let your students in when you're ready when you're already set up um you know sometimes students might log in early and then if you don't have a waiting room and you're just sitting here with your coffee or I don't know just not ready you don't want them to see that so you can just put them in the waiting room or also you can split groups up I think we're going to talk about that also you can you can make like little student groups or pairs so that is really great and again you can meet meet they it has a meeting or a class scheduler as well and Daniel also says I was not into it a couple of years ago but it seems it's now kind of mandatory for video conferencing yes absolutely anything you do nowadays any kind of meeting you have online always zoom right it's pretty much really what you need so this is why I put this number one because it's kind of now so necessary so if you haven't gotten into zoom yet I highly recommend you do and also I think I mentioned this as well hold on let me go to the next slide not have it but on zoom they actually also have these really great free classes that you can watch your video classes because zoom has so many features it's even like I don't know any of I don't know all of the features not any of the features I don't know all of them and they constantly add new features and now you can also add apps or integrate some apps with other things there's a lot going on on zoom I'm not going to lie that's why I think I wasn't into it before because there was just too much going on but now you kind of have to use it and that's why they also have this zoom I think they call it like learning center or something so you can watch videos and learn they teach you how to do things which is great for free and yeah here are some of the best features for teachers that I recommend on zoom definitely the slides as virtual background those are really great so you prepare slides and then you can actually make them your background which is great so it's like you're standing in front of your presentation which is really cool obviously also the whiteboard feature is really great you can actually use it like a whiteboard you can write on it draw on it and your students also right you can give the pen tool to your students which is really great then this third one here is screen sharing which I also love and I use all the time screen sharing you can use images you can also use you can show images you can show videos you can show anything that's on your screen which is really cool also the computer audio thing is really good and I think this is why I prefer zoom nowadays over Skype because of this computer audio sharing so this is really useful when you do listening exercises or you show videos to your students you need to enable the computer audio sharing so they can hear it in the same volume and I think Skype doesn't have that so it's really frustrating you can't really show that over Skype they can't really hear it well but they might have now changed that I'm not sure but I just remember that it didn't work very well on Skype and that's why I prefer zoom and they also have a dropbox integration so you can actually share files with your students directly via zoom and dropbox so this is great for any kind of you know teaching materials that you're sending them homework you're sending them that's just really useful and then you see here in this left hand corner all right this is actually very cool an interesting article about 20 of the best zoom tools and features for teachers so I wanted to share that with you you can check this out this is an article from teachthought.com and maybe there's a thing or two you can also learn from this 20 useful features and zoom tools for teachers check it out yes we talked about breakout rooms before I find the breakout rooms feature quite useful for pair or small group work speaking activities too yes that's the one I was talking about just now yes so I mostly teach only one-on-one students so I actually never use breakout rooms the breakout rooms feature so this is great that you bring that up because again it's great when you teach a group of students right and you can just pair them up and put them in a separate room right so they can talk just one-on-one and you as the teacher you can jump into those rooms and just in and out and kind of check on them and see what they're doing so this is really good thanks for mentioning that Daniel yeah awesome yeah any other features that you would add to this list these are all the ones that I find the most useful and again there are so many other features and the breakout rooms are great um and apps you can integrate but is there anything that you would add to this list let me know breakout rooms for sure anything else that I have missed let me know and I should get more into the zoom the learning videos for the features um you know to just learn more about it and learn more about all the amazing features but these are literally the ones that I just use all the time and that's about it but there's so much more you can do and I just wished I would be able to I just need to sit down one day and just make a zoom day right just watch all the videos I think it'd be so useful and this is also great because you can just make your online classes so much more engaging too okay if you think of any other zoom features that you would add to this list and you absolutely love and need and can't live without let me know I'm just moving on to number two then which is my row and this is actually or me row my row oh great Claudia okay let's go back to this real quick Claudia says you can give to one student control the mouse and play supervised by the teacher yes I love that too so you can actually have them move the mouse and do maybe some matching exercises or like writing or anything like that fill in the gaps whatever it is yes I love that too it just makes it more interactive and the students feel just more involved and they really love it all of my students really get excited when I give them control the mouse and they can move something on their own they get super excited about that thanks Claudia that's a good one all right next up we have my row or me row not sure I say my row and this is the one that I use probably the most often along with zoom zoom of course it's like a non-brainer no-brainer non-negotiable but my row I do use all the time as well so my row if you have never heard about it it's a virtual white board and yeah it's an online collaborative white board platform so you and your students can basically access this white board or what I do also you can just do it with screen sharing as well so I use the zoom screen sharing feature and then I just put my row on there and I use it for my white board you can use it for presentation sharing you can also embed videos and music and images and so on and there's also free weekly webinars and they also continuously add new features and what's really great about this because we are covering free tools it is free to use for three boards you can have three boards and use them and do anything you want on them for completely free okay and I do have a picture here oh no this is hold on that's why I put the link here okay I'm going to show you my row now just real quick on my screen here all right I hope you can see it yes okay so this is what my row looks like and kind of every time you log in you can see something like what's new and they add new features right and you can check it out okay really cool I haven't used that before sounds cool looks cool okay what's new for you virtual events so that's also really great they always have these events you can learn something new okay all right these are the three free boards that I'm talking about so for example let me show you which one should I do let's do this one this is the board that I use for most of my students so I have a lot of different activities on this board it's basically and you can zoom out really really far so you can pop all of your stuff on here and it will look like this basically does that make sense can you see that so it's very small now but you can zoom in to this for example oh this is actually German but anyway and you can put your entire online lesson material here and then use it oh it's blurry now it takes a lot of time to load today because I'm live I think it's normally not that slow all right so like this and then you can again you can type this in on the board I copy pasted this in these are the worksheets you could also what I do create here like matching exercises right you can match this which is which you have a pen tool uh where's the pen tool down here here pen tool so you can be like you can match these things and so on you can also create for example like games like this this is a game I created for my student for Christmas um you have a dice you have a pair of dice and then I added um Disney princesses because it's a young girl and she really likes Disney princesses and you can create a game like this with like little cards here then so you can put these cards under here oh they're not together right now they're separate but yeah yeah so I think this is super cute it's very interactive so literally you can do anything you want with this here also again some Disney princess stuff that I do with her yeah so this is my row there are a lot of options here you can embed videos as well for example youtube videos and anything you want you can just copy and paste it in here and you have pen tools and all these other options so this is my preferred um yeah whiteboard interactive classroom that I use and I also have I can show you that uh a sticker board that I always use for my students here so I would hide these rewards little rewards when we do exercises and I then put this on the sticker board which is also on the myro board and uh when it is full then we get to play a game basically that's how I do it so yeah this is my row I really love my row and like I said you can have here this is the free version you can have three of these boards and as you can see these boards are huge they're humongous you will never be able to fill them anyway completely free so that you have nothing to lose you can just check it out and there are also already some ideas you can also choose some templates you can use for your boards um brainstorming uh reverse brainstorming okay there's a lot of cool stuff here you could choose from uh and yeah or here stickies packs visual table and then you can just use this you can also search by stuff oh this is actually fun look icebreakers this would be fun for a like parts of the face um exercise kind of cool so yeah you can check this out you can type stuff in here school teacher whatever and search for templates and you can use other people's templates as well so this is really useful yeah so that's why I really like my row all right let's get back to this um and yeah actually my colleague Lisa here she did a live session about how she is creating a I think it was a monopoly game on my row very very cool so if you have not seen this one yet let me share that with you as well this video is really really cool she created like this whole game from scratch very nice and I think you can also in this live session you can actually um copy her board so you don't have to create this game you can just use hers I think so that's really useful too and uh actually after I watched her live session about my row that's when I started using it and now I cannot live without it to be honest so here it is this is Lisa's video about how she is creating a game a board game on my row with her teaching uh content all right if Danny said that's miraculous there's so much to do that there is so much to do there it's crazy and my students really love it so yep good next up we have google dogs another one that maybe you're thinking like oh why are you including this but some people might not think about it some people might not think of using this actually so google docs another free tool that online teachers should be using or also in class teachers it is for sharing and also collaborating on word documents so if you don't know google docs literally is like microsoft word pretty much but web based it's perfect for homework assignments so um you see writing and editing in real time which makes it really really cool so you can share this with your student and you can see the same thing at the same time you can see the typing in real time you can make um you know your corrections and discuss the mistakes your student makes in real time which is really really cool and it just helps in creating and sharing materials so you can make worksheets on this as well and just share it virtually with your students or you can also save this as a word document or pdf and then print it out or just share it with your student so that's what i do um i would prepare this in for the class and then we work on it together and then afterwards i can save it as a pdf and just send it to the student for reference as a teaching material so they can save it and have it on their in their files so if you have not considered using google docs before in your english or online classes um i encourage you to do so it's just great for homework you can have your students send them their google doc and then you can check it together in class which is really really good in real time all right i think do i have more about this no yeah so this is that i just wanted to mention it because we a lot of people do use google docs but maybe some people might not think about using it for class so all right next up again something really fun which i love using is canva canva if you have never heard about this before canva is great for creating appealing visuals or also presentations or just anything visual really it is a web-based graphic design platform it and you can create visual content of any kind with canva so i use it for creating teaching materials for my students i make like worksheets on there which is really cool um and then you can actually save all of the stuff in different formats you can save it as a pdf as a png as a jpeg and you can also share the content directly on your social media which is also really awesome um and if you are an online teacher who needs to market themselves if you're working independently not for any teaching platform this is great for creating content to market yourself as well and um okay i'm going to show you real quick if you don't know what it looks like if you haven't seen canva before and actually the slides today that i'm using are always the slides that i use in my live sessions i create them on canva as well so let me do screen sharing real quick yep let me do screen sharing and i'll show you my canva for example okay this is what it looks like i hope you can see it yes um and what's really cool right at the bat you can basically decide what do you want to design so do you want to make presentations or do you want to make something for social media if you click on social media you already get options so do you want to make an instagram post do you want to make a facebook post an insta story and it'll just give you the right format right away oh what's app status interesting i think that's new i haven't seen that before so there's always something new or here facebook cover which could be great if you want to make your own facebook group or facebook page as an independent online teacher it's also instagram real templates also really cool um but what i'm going to show you is the one that oh i need to go into my diff for you know where are my designs hold on down here yeah recent designs so this is what i use for my my student's homework for example this one this is a good example um this is again wait i want to share the other one okay i need to green share one more time hold on one second when i open it in a new tab it doesn't work like that okay here can you see that yes okay so i'm creating worksheets like this for example and this is a beginner student again not in english actually in german but it doesn't matter um and this is great because this is a font you can use for for their writing practice so i thought that was really cool i use this um yeah and i also created this so you have access to a lot of different elements here lines and shapes you can make but also you have access to copyright free um or uh creative comments um pictures or also stickers like graphics icons like here so i like using the icons there's also animated stickers if you want to create you know videos also audio you can use and videos for your whatever kinds of stuff you want to make um yeah so really really cool stuff you can use here to create uh teaching material and we can add a new page here and they also have a ton of templates so you can you know this is something really cute this could be cute and again this is something you can use also if you're teaching obviously in class right because this one is small to big color cut and sort so this could be something cute and you can change all of this you could change the bear you could get rid of it you can change you know you can make it big to small or whatever uh thick to thin or anything you want to practice really so you can all you could change all of these templates which is really cool um and again it's kind of it's because i'm live it's very um very slow right now but yeah you can really make anything with with canva which is really cool if you type in like english worksheet i don't know if anything will come up right away yeah okay see they have a lot of really cool templates already so you don't even need to do a lot of work reading comprehension you can put in your own text here um yeah i mean you can make a lot of stuff or you can just use it as it is up to you you can change colors as well if if i don't want this blue i can just make it green or i can make it pink or whatever i want so canva really is a cool um tool or here draw and read read and draw feelings on the faces very cute um you can change all of this you can change this face you can change uh the the feeling whatever whatever so you can make all of this content directly on canva and you can you can use it online and you can also print it out and use it in the classroom um again you can save it in different formats send it to your students and they can do it for homework um very flexible and i love canva i use it all the time so yeah daniel said nice i've heard about canva though i haven't used it just yet i really like graphic design yeah if you love graphic design this is really really great because it's super easy it's not complicated like photoshop or adobe um what is it after if not after effects illustrator or anything it's really really simple and again they have a lot of templates you can use and you can just adjust and put in your content your teaching content and then you have a cute um worksheet and i've gotten a lot of compliments from parents uh so i use this for especially for a student she's a young student um and her mom is really impressed by these worksheets that's i she actually left a good review on my online teaching platform because of this so um that can really go a long way you know it's it's simple to create it doesn't take a lot of time but it looks nice and professional and so it impresses your students and students parents if your students are young so she really liked that and she left a good review yeah daniel said one can't really get enough of designing stuff yeah absolutely so yeah tried out canva is free there is a pro version however i have the pro version because i just use canva all the time but there is a free version um and some of the templates are pro um actually the ones yeah the ones with the crown here are pro so this one is not there are a lot a lot of templates that are completely free only some are pro so you even if you start out with the free version you can still use a lot of um a lot of templates and material and then maybe if you if it's worth it for you you can then go with the pro version up to you all right this is canva yeah if i'm good to know absolutely yeah i love it i love it okay great then let's move on to number five here which is calendly calendly already sounds a little bit like calender so what calendly is it's great for scheduling classes so if you're working independently as an online teacher um you need to keep track of your students right you don't have a platform perhaps that schedules stuff for you so calendly is a great way to do that if you need it it keeps track of your teaching schedule it's perfect when working for different online companies as well if you work for more than one online company you can put that in one calendar it adds all of your classes to one calendar and you can also add this to your website so students can book you directly through calendly on the website and students can easily book your classes that way so this is a great way again this is very specific for teachers who are working independently so or for more than one platform then you can also do that and it is it syncs with zoom so you already have zoom in there you you send out notifications to students for scheduling classes and you can also add payment information so that you can also charge your students right away with this app so they'll see a price for the class they'll see availability they'll see how long the class is how much it is and payment options all in one tool which is really nice okay and i think that's all about that so again not everyone is going to need this um but if you do if you work independently as an online teacher you will need this it just helps you keep track of your teaching schedule and lets your student easily book your classes they see your availability and they can book it right away based on your schedule you can put in your available times and again the length of the class the price and they can book it right away so you can share a link to your calendly page or you can also embed or add calendly to your website if you have one so if that's interesting for you check it out and then next up we have we transfer if you haven't heard about that this one is great for sending files also again completely free it's a web based file transfer service and it's perfect for sending large files so you just simply upload your files and you enter an email address for example if you want to share an entire pdf textbook with your student that's going to be a big file so it probably won't you probably won't be able to send it to them via email and also if you don't want to spam or make your google drive or your dropbox too full we transfer can be a good option you can just send large files and they're not going to be stored on in your account or on your computer or anything like that it's not going to take up space in your cloud so that can be a really good option for sending files like i said if you want to share um yeah large files some some really large pdfs like textbooks or a lot of pictures or anything like that uh mp3 files like a whole bunch of stuff then i would suggest using we transfer instead of or video files right if you record your lessons for example and you want to send it to your student usually video files are hard to send via email and they're large so if you don't want to put them in your dropbox or your google drive or whatever cloud service you use you just put it into we transfer and then your student can download it and then it's going to get deleted it doesn't take up any space all right next up we have at modo at modo if you have not heard about that one yet also really cool this is for sharing content with students and as you can see in the picture what does this look like it looks like facebook so it's basically like a facebook for students and teachers it's really fun so it connects you with students it connects students with their teachers just like a social network so just like facebook you can put a status up you can put polls up you can also set assignments you can share resources you can even test students you can prepare like little tests and you can track their process progress so you can track how your students were doing in their assignments and you can correct them right away you can give them feedback also and you can also see how they were doing in their tests that you've created in there so this can be a really great way to connect and make your classes more interactive for your students if you teach a group or also just if you teach one-on-one you can share assignments in there as well which can be really fun has anybody used at modo before have you known this before let me know let me know it's really fun or would you use something like this oh and i actually wanted to show you also this one this is also something you could do so for example this is an example from at modo this is the biology class from miss is teacher one and she says please add your photos from the field trip last week going to need a i don't know a bunch or whatever of to make an album anyway and then students can't share files they can comment on it you can also see sample student three over here you can your students can see upcoming assignments they can see messages they can message the teacher directly uh someone sent a what posted a note really cool leave comments with other students so this might be really cool if you have a class of students and again this is another one which can be used if you teach a real class in the classroom not only online teachers can use this to kind of uh yeah build the class relationship you can do polls and you can also do testing so this could be something really interesting for some teachers not going to work for everybody but it might work for someone and that's why i put it on here and shared it i think it's really fun yeah and they can connect with you one on one which is really cool and you can also update parents so the parents can get class updates and they can stay in sync with teachers and get support for learning at home um they can also see the parents they can see classroom activity and grades at a glance to help students stay on track which is really cool and yeah they have a free version so do check it out i highly recommend it all right where am i here okay claudia says no have never used it or heard about it great i'm glad to recommend something you haven't heard about before awesome if you end up using it let me know how it goes all right then we have number eight which is called zip let zip let zip let is similar but not so much social media focused so zip let is great for checking in with your students because student feedback is very important especially when you're starting out as an independent teacher you want to establish yourself you want to make sure that you get regular students and you get booked again and again and again so by using zip let you can get feedback that you can then use to make your lessons better um so you can connect and check in with your students and you can get instant student insights this is also great because you can give shy and quiet students a voice because all of this all of this is anonymous so students can leave feedback anonymous they can also ask for clarity if they didn't understand anything or if they didn't understand something they ask for it anonymously and with that feedback you can then make immediate changes in the classroom to support student learning and to make your classes better and more fun so let's have a look this is basically how it works so you can ask a question and these are some popular questions so for example you could ask how well did you understand today's lesson and you can have your students answer with emojis different emojis or text or other kinds of answers and this is all anonymously right so they will be more inclined to answer honestly and this is why it's great for shy students right shy students sometimes don't want to talk in front of people they don't want to admit that they didn't you know understand it or i mean not even shy students but a lot of students don't want to admit if they didn't understand something so this is a great way of doing it so you can get feedback instantly anonymously and just more honest or here one of the questions is here what is one thing you'd like me to explain more clearly and you can ask this and then the students can write something in all anonymously and then you can explain it right there and then in front of everybody and everyone will be happy so again this is something great for not only online teachers but also in the classroom to get instant feedback and i've read some reviews about this and one teacher was saying that she received feedback that she had never gotten before it was really great she heard things through ziplat from her students that she never heard in the classroom so it really helped her kind of connect and get a better relationship with her students to improve and to really touch on those things that the students didn't quite understand so really really cool and as you can see you can also create your own questions you don't need to do those and yeah they're really great questions also for warm up or for exit all of these things student reflection classroom climate all of these things and because it's done anonymously that's why it's really really useful and it really works so again this is called ziplat so if you want to check that one out it will really improve your relationship with your students just the classroom climate and it will be you will be able to get instant student insights that you can then use and make immediate changes in the classroom to create a better learning environment all right then we have number nine which is called teacheroo teacheroo all right what is teacheroo teacheroo is an online teacher community and again this is for online teachers but also for in-class teachers basically teacheroo is a friendly space for teachers everywhere in the world to connect with each other and share resources which is really great so you can browse thousands of free resources created by other teachers and they share feedback if it works for them in the classroom or if it didn't or how you can tweak it and change it and adapt to your students and you can also share posts and ideas and links um you can also do live videos from your teacheroo profile and you can follow and chat with like-minded educators and you can even join groups so there's groups for for example teachers abroad or teachers in like a specific country teachers in brazil or something like that so this is really just a teacher-only community where teachers share their ideas and share resources and basically it's all about yeah a community building a community together to make it easier to teach sharing resources everybody can use these and you can use them in the classroom you can share your own resources other teachers can use them then and it's just really cool and it can help you save a lot of time and um yeah ekrami hi ekrami saying nice and amazing tools thank you i appreciate that all right so this is teacheroo check it out again a free tool i recommend checking that out if you're new to teaching number 10 we have pinterest pinterest i'm sure many of you know what pinterest is but in the sense for teachers what pinterest can be it can be a great tool for your lesson planning material free teaching material so you can save all of your ideas in one place you can make different boards on pinterest right you can make a board for grammar and you can save grammar stuff on there you can make a board for reading and you can save a reading things on there so this is really cool and then you can also use this these boards that you make with teaching material and you can actually share these with your students right if you have students who maybe need a little bit of extra work or some students who aren't challenged enough you can point them to your pinterest and say okay there are a lot of worksheets or a lot of teaching material i saved on there hey do some of those you know give them extra work it's great if they want to learn more or if they need additional help you can point them to your pinterest it's also great it has a lot of cool ideas for clever classroom design um which i think i'll show you in a minute i think the next slide are some examples of that so that's really cool and also you'll find just a lot of worksheets and posters and activity ideas and everything on pinterest so pinterest is not just for fashion and hairstyles and i don't know what um it's a great tool for finding lesson material let me tell you really really great so if you haven't used pinterest in that way yet you're missing out it will save you so much time you can put in anything into pinterest in the search function like esl simple past worksheet and you have thousands of results and you can just use them so oh no i don't have one but yeah classroom design ideas also um posters like classroom rules as well um you can find on there or yeah just really inspiration how to kind of make your classroom in the real world or you can also type in anything and you'll find tips for online classrooms as well so pinterest really is a surge engine right you can just type in anything and it'll spit out visuals for that search term so it's really cool and it will save you money not money money too i guess time most of all right and time is money eventually all right good this is number 10 and i have a bonus one for you because this is one that i have been using quite a lot recently and i just wanted to put it in there and this one's called word wall so if you haven't heard about word word wall yet um i highly recommend you check it out it's also free um so it is again for creating materials and word wall allows teachers to create interactive games and printed materials so simply you simply enter the content that you want um you know you students to learn whatever it is and then they word wall they automate the rest and there are 33 templates available in 41 languages so it doesn't even have to be only English a lot of options here so for example let me show you this is how it works you uh create you pick a template whatever game you want what kind of activity you want now i'll show you what kind of templates they have and then you enter the content that you want this works great for grammar but also really great for vocabulary for example that's what i use it most for and um then you can print out your activities or you can play them on the screen so this is what it looks like for example match up and you know what i'm just going to log into my word wall and i'm going to show you or i'll show you how to search for cool activities let's see i think that might make more sense okay oh yeah this is something i think i've used before okay so let's see i'm going to share my screen again and i'm just going to show you exactly how it works i think that makes the most sense so for example yeah here and you could search for what should we search for simple past let's just do simple past okay present simple or simple past all right great these are all the games that people already created so you don't even have to do anything if you don't want to that's what i usually do i just look what already they have out here um so i don't have to do that much work so this looks kind of cool simple past present simple or simple past and then you click start and there's music too i don't know if you can hear this and it's just fun it looks cool and then your students can fill in the gap so where go last sunday where does mary go where did mary went or where did mary go what are we picking what are we picking we are picking see and oh it's correct okay cool nice and then next one she pasta with her parents last sunday so let's do a wrong one she eats oh no that's wrong all right oh it's eight uh okay so this is a cool game uh and yeah there's some other ones so this is with fill in the gap i also saw one oh this is also cool where you need to put the sentence in the right order for example right i oh i was okay i was asleep no i was asleep oh at six it's a little slow again because i'm live clock this morning yay nice all right okay cool um let's see one more oh this is the first time i actually see a crossword interesting i've never seen that before this is cool too pick a word okay how do i pick a word though pick a word oh just like that oh past of carry okay carried yay uh interesting that's the first time i see crossword and see if you want to do the same stuff but you want to switch the template you can do that too so you can do all let's do find the match with the same content which is really cool okay so this is a different game with the same content past of roller skate roller skated okay i like the crossword or again same content with different kind of game match up past of hop so this is great you can put in this information once and then do different games with the same information to really practice that topic with your students this is really cool and what you can do you can play this online which is what i do but you can also print these activities out which is really fun and then use them in your classrooms that's really really cool yeah and this is wordwall so you can either create your own games on there with your own content or what i do most of the time i just browse the library and see what what's already out there it saves me more time so yeah this is what i wanted to show you because i love wordwall and i've been using it a lot so this is my bonus bonus activity for you or bonus tool sorry all right good then these were all my 10 plus one bonus free tool for teachers for you and again this is how you can find ittt and then are there any questions before i sign off are there any questions which tool was your favorite which which tool do you think is the most useful and you will use in your classroom perhaps let me know curious let me know which one did you like the best i really like myro i use myro a lot as my as my virtual classroom my board and wordwall i really like i add in a wordwall activity like here and there or especially for review games i think it's really cool so those two of course and zoom of course i use all the time um yeah those are my favorites those three are my favorites i could not live without those they make my life as an online teacher so much easier for sure how about you which tools did you like the best and maybe are you using a tool that i haven't mentioned that you would say hey you should put that on the list oh and i forgot canva i use canva pretty much every day i use canva for something i love canva let me know i'm out of coffee now out of coffee or if you have any other questions about ittt tefal teesaw also here's your chance to ask and then i'm gonna sign up very soon i hope you enjoyed it i hope you liked it we talked about a lot of tools and um yeah oh ifang hwang said i would love to try wordwall nice perfect acrami says zoom and google docs awesome this is pretty much all you need honestly all you need claudia says all tools are great a lot to practice yet thanks a lot thank you claudia i appreciate that there's a lot to practice for sure yeah you really need to take some time first right to sit down and just figure out the tools as the teacher on your own before you then can use it with your students right that's the other thing for sure awesome great what else more more more oh and again 30 off right just want to mention it again i know some people are coming in and out of our live session so if you have not seen that yet if you haven't heard about it yet we have 30 off today any teflor t-sol course from ittt you can scan this qr code or i'm also going to share a link with you in the comment section you can check it out it ends with facebook live minus linda so you click on that you fill out the application and you get a 30 discount off of any teflor t-sol course from ittt all right and please please please don't forget to like and subscribe we go live every week same time same place i'll be here i hope you too next time um and i think we're gonna sign off very soon then if nobody has any question anymore or maybe you think of a question you can ask me next time as well but um yeah i had a lot of fun i hope you too i hope you learned something new and interesting today that you can use in your online classroom and in your actual real classroom in the real world as well and um yeah i hope to see you all again next week and um yeah it was fun thank you for asking all your questions and your input your feedback about the tools that you use really really cool in which ones you like the best that was very interesting claudia says thanks for sharing thanks for being here claudia it was nice seeing you daniel says i think i'll start by testing wordwall first awesome yeah good choice wordwall is great my students really love it even that's just the younger students they of course love all the games but also the older students they really like wordwall too um so definitely all right awesome i'm i'm glad i could inspire you guys a little bit to try out something new and then i hope to see you all again next time next week i'll be here and i hope you'll also be here again and um yeah thank you guys so much have a wonderful weekend i hope you're having lots of fun i hope the weather is good where you are and you're gonna have a nice nice weekend and um yeah thank you for being here my pleasure all right then i'll see you all again hopefully next week with another topic and again my name is linda and this is ittt thank you see you next time bye guys